CiteScore: 8.80ℹ
CiteScore measures the average citations received per document published in this title. CiteScore values are based on citation counts in a given year (e.g. 2015) to documents published in three previous calendar years (e.g. 2012 – 14), divided by the number of documents in these three previous years (e.g. 2012 – 14).

Impact Factor: 5.774ℹImpact Factor:2016: 5.774The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
2016 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2017)

5-Year Impact Factor: 8.284ℹFive-Year Impact Factor:2016: 8.284To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2016 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.
2016 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2017)

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 4.036ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2016: 4.036SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 5.771ℹSCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2016: 5.771SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.

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